Concerned about the Big Tech embedded in our hospitals, workplaces, welfare system, local councils and the rest? This is for you.
In this one-hour live panel with Volt Europa, we explore the geopolitical pressure points accelerating the push for digital sovereignty, the dependencies keeping Europe locked into the status quo, and what a genuinely democratic alternative could look like.
We were joined by:
Carole Cadwalladr: Investigative journalist and co-founder of The Citizens (that’s us!) and The Nerve. Her reporting probes the nexus of politics and Silicon Valley power. Formerly of The Guardian and Observer, she now writes How to Survive the Broligarchy on Substack.
Sophie in ‘t Veld spent two decades in the European Parliament as a leading voice on digital rights and the rule of law. She now chairs the Advisory Council for the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe and sits on the Advisory Council of Defend Democracy. A longtime member of D66, she joined Volt in 2023. Subscribe to Sophie’s Substack here.
Reinier van Lanschot is co-founder of Volt Netherlands and a Member of the European Parliament. In Brussels, he works on European defence, regulating Big Tech and treaty reform, and advocates for a federal Europe, outlined in his book We Are Europe.
Roger McNamee is an early Facebook investor turned Big Tech critic and author of Zucked. One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent dissenting voices, he now campaigns globally on the dangers posed by monopolistic tech power and surveillance capitalism.
The future of democracy shouldn’t be decided by a handful of tech companies. Comment below with your ideas, questions and concerns.
